
Cal Poly Team Wins Competition for Indoor Farming Unit Design
A team of Cal Poly mechanical engineering students won first place recently in the Setty Family Foundation’s 2021 Applied Engineering Challenge after designing an indoor gardening unit that could feed a family

Questioning “The Way It Is:” New Course Bridges Gap Between Social and Technical Aspects of Engineering
In the syllabus for his Engineering, Design and Social Justice course, Ben Lutz makes clear that students must use evidence to support claims made during classroom discussions. With a topic than can

Lee McFarland Retiring after 22 Years of Teaching
Congratulations to Lee McFarland, who retired last spring after 22 years of teaching in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) and Mechanical Engineering (ME) Departments. McFarland came to Cal Poly in 1999

Faculty Members Published in Research Journal for Engineering Education
Three College of Engineering faculty members were published in the Research Journal for Engineering Education. The JEE paper, “Engineering students’ noncognitive and affective factors: Group differences from cluster analysis,” was co-authored by

ME Senior Project Team Featured on Mountain Bike Website
An article featuring mechanical engineering students was published online featuring a recent senior project team which created a special headset that allows one to easily change the geometry and handling of a mountain